Gene Krupa

Last week I posted about star-crossed trumpeter Don Sleet [pictured] and his sole leadership album All Members. Read More

It's probably best to check your wits at the saloon door to enjoy "Girl Crazy," the Gershwin musical from 1930 that opens this year's Encores! series of concert musicals at City Center. Read More

Chicago native Benny Goodman has been called many names, including the "King of Swing," "Patriarch of the Clarinet," "The Professor" and "Swing's Senior Statesman." Read More

The opening night of George and Ira Gershwin's "Girl Crazy" on Oct. 14, 1930 at Broadway's Alvin Theatre was a pinnacle for musical theater, the Great American Songbook, and even for jazz. Read More

Thomas Cunniffe covers the world of DVDs for jazz.com. His most recent review here looked at Charles Mingus's Epitaph and Town Hall Concert . Read More

One of Donald Bailey's favorite lines is "I'll never forget that." Read More

Seventy-five-year-old drummer Donald "Duck" Bailey has an anomalous presence on the artist roster at Talking House Records, which otherwise includes prominent indie bands like Loquat and the Lovemakers. Read More

One of Donald Bailey's favorite lines is "I'll never forget that." Read More

The idea of the "drummer as bandleader" is an oddity in most circles. Read More

Marian McPartland is probably best known today as a pioneering jazz radio host (NPR's Piano Jazz ) and the grande dame of the jazz piano. Read More